As the Saturday morning haze burned off into clear skies, surfing’s elite began to gather in droves along La Jolla’s reefs, to remember Mike Hynson, one of modern surfing’s true originals, who died on ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The life of surf icon Mike Hynson was celebrated Saturday with a heartfelt paddle out at Windansea Beach. The gathering took place on what would have been Hynson’s 83rd ...

LA JOLLA – On Saturday, June 28, the surfing world paid its final respects to legendary surfer Mike Hynson at Windansea Beach in La Jolla with surfing’s greatest tribute: a paddle out. More than 300 ...

He was handsome and brash and a stylish surfer long before he was captured on film and propelled to worldwide celebrity. Michael Hynson, co-star of the definitive surf movie “The Endless Summer,” died ...

Mike Hynson, who epitomized the image of the bronzed surf god as a star of the hit 1966 surfing documentary "The Endless Summer" and, with his outlaw instincts, embodied the rebel ethos of the sport ...

He was handsome and brash and cemented a reputation for navigating the San Diego County surf long before he was captured on film and propelled to worldwide celebrity. Michael Hynson, co-star of the ...

Mike Hynson, a California surfer whose globe-trotting hunt for the perfect wave in the documentary “The Endless Summer” made him an ambassador of 1960s cool with sea-slicked blond hair and a ...

The hit 1966 surfing documentary immortalized the maverick California wave rider as an archetype of the footloose rebel surfer. Mike Hynson surfing in Cape St. Francis, South Africa, in 1964. Clip ...